Al-Nusra: TV Station 'An Arm of the Regime'

Al-Qaeda-styled militant faction al-Nusra has issued a statement claiming credit for a number of major terrorist attacks inside Syria over the past few weeks, including the attack on a private television station and the murder of several of its employees.

The statement focused on and defended the attack on al-Ikhbariya TV, saying that the private station was “an arm of the regime” and the deaths of its employees would make others wonder when they will be attacked. They also released photos of 11 employees kidnapped during the attack.

Al-Nusra is a relatively recent terrorist group, issuing its first statement in January and claiming credit for a number of suicide bombings that were previously blamed on al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI).

A large number of jihadists have flocked to Syria since al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri formally endorsed a religious war against the Assad regime last year. The existence of such groups has complicated the rhetoric of other rebel groups, which had previously tried to argue that Assad was in league with al-Qaeda.

As has been in the news, all these terrorist groups are, of course, US allies vetted, trained, and armed by the CIA on Turkish/Syrian border. Will the number one state supporter of terrorists please stand up.

Do not support TERRORISM. Even if US State Department in its infinite wisdom chooses to turn blind eye to the terrorism, and in fact, support it, us ordinary people do not buy your notions that it is OK to shoot employees of any TV station, or any people who are just doing their job — so you can send your political message. And the message is clear: be with us, or die. And who is "us"? Armed thugs, merciless killers of babies and old people, beasts in jungles have more mercy then these psychopaths.

Do not support them. Just do not. If you think killing innocents for political gain is OK — go somewhere else to preach this, not here.

That BBC report could just as well describe the BBC, CNN or The New York Times, etc. So, what is the BBC trying to suggest; that it's OK to blow up BBC stations and kill BBC employees as well, or are they just so confident of the stupidity of their readers that they no longer care that they have MURDER SUPPORTING HYPOCRITE printed on their faces in bright, bold font?